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In the world of computational simulations, efficiency and flexibility are crucial. Kitware's open source platform, Computation Model Builder (CMB), is designed to streamline every step of the simulation process, from setting up models to analyzing results. As an example, while OpenFOAM remains a powerful tool for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), integrating it with CMB elevates productivity by providing an intuitive, flexible workflow. With CMB,...

As technology advances, it is essential to stay current with industry-standard tools and methodologies. Kitware’s training courses provide developers, researchers, and engineers with hands-on, expert-led instruction in our popular open source platforms. Whether you’re looking to grow your skillset or efficiently leverage new tools, Kitware’s winter courses offer valuable insights and practical experience. And by signing up early, you can save more than $200...

This security release addresses a vulnerability discovered in Laravel. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

This security release addresses a vulnerability discovered in Laravel. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Following a recent CC-FR webinar High fidelity simulations with OpenRadioss™ & ParaView by Altair and Kitware, this blog post describes an example of workflow to post-process OpenRadioss results with ParaView. OpenRadioss is a free, publicly available FEA software for simulation of impact, shock and highly dynamic events, actively developed by Altair.  The example data is […]

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash 3.6.0. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

The Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) helps to accelerate the adoption of data, analytics, and AI across the Department of Defense (DoD), enabling decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. One of CDAO’s first outputs was a Data, Analytics, and AI Adoption Strategy, which helped set a vision for the responsible use of AI across the DoD, in accordance with the DoD’s...

Kitware, a leader in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision, is proud to announce the award of a $2.2 million contract for Phase II of the Chief Digital and AI Office’s (CDAO) Joint AI Test Infrastructure Capability (JATIC) program. The new contract extends Kitware's work on developing and enhancing tools that support responsible AI adoption across the Department of Defense (DoD).

We have recently published our SlicerSALT 5.0 release. One of the main updates to SlicerSALT is the addition of tools and functionalities for the visualization and analysis of 4D shapes that are composed of sequences of 3D geometries. As part of this release, we have created a new module named Hierarchical Geodesic Modeling that is […]

Simulation workflows are inherently complex, often involving a variety of computational tools that each play a crucial role in modeling, analyzing, and interpreting physical systems. From geometric kernel operations to mesh generation, numerical solvers, and post-processing analysis tools, these workflows require a high level of coordination and integration. Unfortunately, most simulation environments fall short of providing all the necessary tools in one cohesive package,...

GeoWATCH is a powerful tool designed to train, predict, and evaluate AI models on complex heterogeneous sequences of imagery. While initial development focused on geospatial satellite imagery, it is designed for any sequence of rasters. Unlike traditional tools, it’s built to handle diverse sensor data, accommodating variations in band type, resolution, and revisit rates. This flexibility empowers GeoWATCH to provide valuable insights across domains,...

LidarView: One software to read and process them all!  We’ve added to LidarView several new LiDARs from different manufacturers. They can be used in the same way, regardless of the model, to visualize live streams, replay .pcap records and running algorithms. You can even open two different LiDARs at the same time! Here is a […]

High-performance computing (HPC) is the perfect platform for AI and machine learning (AI/ML) research. This is because modern leadership class supercomputers rely on the massive parallelism of GPUs to perform scientific computation at exascale. Those same GPUs are the bedrock that the proliferation of AI/ML technologies are built upon. Therefore, these machines make it possible to combine traditional simulation workflows with AI/ML techniques and...

As the demand for analyzing vast amounts of geospatial data continues to grow, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a critical role in accelerating this process. Developing AI capabilities requires tools to visualize and validate results, as well as to create annotations that further improve AI models. RDWATCH is one of the latest technological developments in this area—an advanced cloud-ready system designed to streamline machine learning...

In a previous blog post, we introduced VESPA, a VTK module and ParaView plugin designed for advanced meshing capabilities. Today, we are happy to announce that you can now use VESPA by simply by downloading the binary version of the plugin for Linux! To do this, go to the release page of VESPA: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/meshing/vespa/-/releases and […]

This release adds FreeIPA LDAP integration, many new GraphQL fields, a variety of performance enhancements, and a handful of usability improvements. This release also contains many bug fixes and internal refactoring changes. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash v3.6.0-rc1. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Open source software has become a vital part of technological innovation across industries, from scientific research to commercial applications. However, maintaining these projects long-term can be challenging, especially as they grow in complexity and scope. To address this, Kitware co-founders Bill Hoffman and Will Schroeder recently presented the Kitware Software Sustainability Matrix (SSM), a strategic framework designed to evaluate and improve the sustainability of...

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is a widely used open-source solution for desktop post-processing analysis. Even though the library is written in C++, its sophisticated wrapping infrastructure allows developers to build entire visualization applications in Python and Java. Until recently, the python wrapper naively exposed the C++ functions to Python. For example, a C++ member function […]

Creating highly interactive or data-intensive web applications can be challenging, but trame simplifies this process. trame was designed to help developers create rich, desktop-like experiences on the web. It leverages Python, allowing you to build beautiful user interfaces without needing extensive web development knowledge.

VTK and ParaView have a huge library of visualization tools built on a data model that progressively adds conceptual assumptions based on how the data can be represented; the more information you can provide about your data, the more efficient the tools can be. We are adding a new data representation – called a cell grid – to address a large range of novel...

This release adds FreeIPA LDAP integration, many new GraphQL fields, a variety of performance enhancements, and a handful of usability improvements. This release also contains many bug fixes and internal refactoring changes For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

In scientific computing, managing continuous integration (CI) pipelines and binary generation can become challenging, especially when handling complex dependencies and large software builds. At Kitware, we’ve integrated powerful tools like GitLab, Spack, and AWS to streamline these processes, enabling scalable and efficient software development.

In the beginning, there was chaos. Then there was pkg-config. This was more-or-less adequate for autotools, but it is suboptimal for describing related but separable consumables, and flag soup is semantically lossy. Thus, CMake developed in a different direction, initially creating “find modules”, and later, “exported targets”. The latter in particular is a significant advancement in the state of package information exchange, although it...

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is a widely used open-source solution for post-processing analysis on a desktop. The library is written in C++ but can be used in Python and Java thanks to wrapping infrastructure. A JavaScript library (vtk.js) is also available but lacks the decades of investment and development from which the C++ library benefits. […]

For some time, CMake has recommended using target namespaces for imported targets. This has the advantage of reducing name conflicts while providing an indicator as to what provides various targets. (There is also the advantage, when using the preferred and strongly recommended “::” namespace separator, that CMake enforces the existence of targets with qualified names, rather than silently assuming that an unknown name should...

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, making advanced modeling and simulation tools available on the web is essential for teams that need to collaborate and scale their workflows. But how can you effectively transition these tools to a browser-based environment while ensuring smooth performance and user-friendly interfaces?

Kitware, a leader in innovative medical software, is developing the next generation of echocardiography that uses autonomous ultrasound scanning and artificial intelligence to diagnose congenital heart diseases (CHD) in newborns.

The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a premier event showcasing the latest advancements in NLP research and applications. It brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge methodologies, share groundbreaking findings, and explore future directions in the field of natural language processing.

Last year, we introduced Catalyst-ADIOS2, a new Catalyst implementation capable to process simulation data on the fly on a dedicated visualization cluster. We recommend reading this first blog post before this one if you have not already. Catalyst-ADIOS2 enables new in situ workflows (named “in transit”) that process simulation outputs without blocking the simulation itself. […]

The next version of ParaView will feature two very noticeable changes: the default colormap and background will be different! This marks the first change in these defaults in well over a decade. In this blog post, we will describe why the change was made and explain why the new defaults are better for most visualization […]

The SlicerSALT team is proud to announce that version 5.0 is now available for download. This release introduces new and exciting improvements. Our skeletal representation functionality now includes now tools to serialize the computation of s-reps in large datasets. This release also includes a s-rep specific tool for the computation of hypothesis testing, specially designed […]

The 2024 MSS Joint (BAMS and NSSDF) Conference offers a secure platform for the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities to explore cutting-edge advancements in sensor technology and data fusion. The BAMS committee will focus on innovations in acoustic, seismic, magnetic, and electric-field sensing and their applications, while the NSSDF committee will delve into integrated information operations and multisource data fusion. Attendees will have...

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'24) is the premier conference for supercomputing experts where they can discuss the latest developments, technologies, and applications in high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. This conference provides researchers, industry leaders, and practitioners a platform to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and collaborate on cutting-edge advancements.

trame Kitware has created trame [1] to spark creativity and empower developers to construct compelling interactive visual applications accessible directly through web browsers. trame, a Python package, functions as a tool for building robust applications without the need for extensive knowledge in web development. Its remarkable adaptability facilitates the creation of desktop applications, Jupyter tools, […]

As software systems are more complex, the need for an efficient and flexible build system becomes critical. Kitware has extensive experience managing large software build and package systems, which is showcased through our work with the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). VTK is a powerful library for scientific data processing and visualization that originally adopted CMake as a build system in 2000. Since then, VTK has...

Point cloud of 2 billions of points from The Grand Lyon rendered by VTK with WebGPU Recently, Kitware internal development made it possible to use a new type of shader in VTK with WebGPU: the Compute Shader. Already presented in a previous blog post, this modern rendering approach allows us to offload computations from the […]

Investigating new approaches to improve the performance of ITK filters. By leveraging Halide’s unique approach to optimizing image pipelines, we can significantly enhance the performance of ITK operations, making workflows faster and more scalable.

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash 3.5.0. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Kitware’s field work can take many forms, but it's not every day we get to venture out into the Arctic Circle within eyeshot of Siberia. Our team participated in an extensive system testing and integration event in Nome, Alaska to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) prepare for a massive seal survey in 2025.

On behalf of the Pulse Physiology Community, we are pleased to announce that version 4.3 is now available from our repository.  The Pulse Explorer has also been updated and can assist in developing applications built on this version.  We have continued to support commercial, academic, and government institutions in integrating Pulse into their projects and […]

In the context of scientific visualization, simulation outputs may contain various scalar fields. Studying multiple fields simultaneously as well as their correlations may be of interest to analysts. It then becomes a necessary issue for ParaView to offer adequate visualization tools allowing multivariate rendering. In this blog post, we will present several tools recently introduced […]